Rhode Island Wedding Band: Ceremony, Reception and Dance Floor

Yes. We're based in Boston and play weddings across Rhode Island, including Newport, Providence, Bristol, Portsmouth, Narragansett and Westerly. If accommodations are needed, your Band Manager will let you know. Providence is about an hour from Boston, Newport and Bristol about 90 minutes, and Watch Hill about 2 hours. Picture the band in a Gilded Age ballroom open to the lawn, or under a tent above the water in Watch Hill.

Ceremony music for Rhode Island venues starts from about $630, and reception music from about $2,230. Travel to your venue is included. Book both together and a package discount is applied automatically. The price you see in the Package Builder is the price you pay.

As soon as your venue is confirmed. We're often booked up to 12 months ahead, and June to October is peak season. Saturdays and fall foliage weekends are always snapped up first. Newport is summer-wedding country, so a July or August Saturday on a mansion lawn goes early. Many Newport venues also stop amplified music at a set time, and your Band Manager plans your timeline around it.

A Violin + Cello Duo suits up to about 50 guests, a String Trio about 80, and a String Quartet around 100. With vocals, we bring our own sound system. Give us a covered spot and an indoor backup. Strings play unamplified, and on an open lawn above Narragansett Bay a String Quartet fills the space best. Sea breezes and storms roll in fast here, so plan that backup early.

Yes. Strings, harp or an Acoustic Singer sound beautiful in a church. We play hymns, candle lighting and Communion too, and follow your officiant so each piece lands where the service needs it. Many churches have their own music rules, so ask early and tell your Band Manager. Then the doors open, and everyone you love turns to see you.

Yes. One booking can cover your ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner and dance floor. Many of us play more than one role, and a package discount is applied automatically. A ceremony with the water behind you at Castle Hill Inn, cocktails as the sun goes down over the harbor, then the ballroom: one booking, one Band Manager, nothing to juggle, and the feeling carries all the way through.

Yes. Tented receptions are common in Rhode Island. We need a covered space for the band and power within 10 feet. Strings and harp also need shelter from rain and cold. On a Newport lawn or down in South County, a tent by the water makes a beautiful dance floor, and we never need a stage. Just leave us room, and tell your Band Manager where the power is.

Yes. Choose songs for the key moments, like your walk down the aisle and first dance, and we'll play them live. A new String Quartet arrangement may involve a small music preparation fee. Our strings play from almost 1,000 arrangements written exclusively by us, so hearing your favorite songs on strings by the water is where the goosebumps start. Then your first dance, played live, opens the floor.